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I don't get what the big deal is about this, am I missing something here? To me it looks like it's just a repo Microsoft forked from react-native.

The repo has only 9 stars and they haven't even changed the README yet. It's not like it's a big open source Microsoft project they're now sinisterly adding Office code to. And even then, the commit title directly mentions Office.

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I gave some narrative regarding the 'big deal' in the original thread, and OP shamelessly reposted it just two hours after, so you're missing that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17728515

Check the 0.51-macos branch if you missed it; it's got ~350 changed files specifically to support macOS.

HN title lengths are very restrictive, so perhaps it was unclear, but what I was trying to say was that this repo is likely receiving merges of the very same codebase that Microsoft is using to build their RN Mac apps. This is the first indication of which fork they're using for it (and it's surprisingly not derived from the fork that has 14k+ stars!).

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